Police said that the semitrailer was loaded with meat products, and driver, David M. Raper, from Newton, Iowa, 43, lost control and sideswiped a concrete barrier.

Raper struck a Department of Transportation portable electronic sign on the shoulder of the interstate and continued into a grassy median, where the vehicle went up on an embankment.

The trailer then overturned onto its side before skidding across four lanes of oncoming I-80 traffic I-29 southbound split when it struck a pole.

Raper's vehicle finally came to a stop on the southwest shoulder of the I-80 and I-29 split.

Raper suffered minor injuries and was taken to Jennie Edmundson Hospital and later released.

He was issued a citation for failure to maintain control of a motor vehicle.

The Council Bluffs Police Department would like to credit two separate semitrailer operators who were traveling eastbound on I-80 and observed the semitrailer crossing the median into the oncoming lanes.

The two operators applied their brakes, stopping all the traffic behind them.